It is the rare book that I read more than once. But after watching several episodes of French Village on PBS, I knew I had to revisit Sonia Purnell's account of Virginia Hall's contribution to the French Résistance during WWII. To my way of thinking, this is the only way to truly capture both the tragedy and the triumph of those terrible years in France, namely through the experiences of people like the so-called Madonna of the Mountains.
